A/HRC/7/7 page 26 − Recommends that, in order to ensure that the military assistance, consultancy and security services offered by private companies at the international level neither impede the enjoyment of nor violate human rights, Governments of States from which these private companies export such services should adopt legislation and set up regulatory mechanisms to control and monitor their activities, including a system of registering and licensing which would authorize these companies to operate and allow them to be sanctioned when the norms are not respected; − Recommends that States outsourcing activities relating to military assistance, consultancy and security services to private military and security companies should demand the authorization of States from which former military personnel and policemen are recruited by such companies to work in armed conflict or post-conflict situations before the recruitment takes place; − Urges Governments of States from which private military and security companies export military assistance, consultancy and security services to avoid granting immunity to these companies and their personnel; − Encourages Governments which import the military assistance, consultancy and security services provided by private companies to establish regulatory mechanisms for the registering and licensing of these companies in order to ensure that imported services provided by these private companies neither impede the enjoyment of human rights nor violate human rights in the recipient country; − Encourages Governments, when establishing such regulatory systems of registration and licensing of PMSCs and individuals working for them, to include defining minimum requirements for obligatory transparency and accountability of firms, background screening and vetting of PMSC personnel, ensure adequate training of PMSC personnel on international human rights and international humanitarian law, as well as rules of engagement consistent with applicable law and international standards, and to establish effective complaint and monitoring systems including parliamentary oversight. Such regulatory systems should include thresholds of permissible activities, and States should impose a specific ban on PMSCs intervening in internal or international armed conflicts or actions aimed at destabilizing constitutional regimes; − Encourages States from which former military personnel and ex-policemen are being recruited by private security companies to be deployed to low-intensity zones of armed conflict or post-conflict situations to take the necessary measures to avoid such mercenary recruitment and to issue public statements and apply policies aimed at discouraging such practices; − Recommends that United Nations departments, offices, organizations, programmes and funds establish an effective selection and vetting system and guidelines containing relevant criteria aimed at regulating and monitoring the activities of private security/military companies working under their respective authorities. They should also ensure that the guidelines comply with human rights standards and international humanitarian law;